clausal

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or constructed using clauses.

OriginProto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← English clause →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or constructed using clauses.
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    In contrast, a sentence complement is a clause that is lexically specified by a particular noun, like fact[…], and consequently, there is no missing position in the embedded clause. Other nouns with clausal components include belief, report, statement, possibility and many others. These nouns take a clause as part of their meaning. For fact, for example, the clausal complement describes the content of the fact.

    2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Locality in Language Processing” (chapter 4), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 119–120

Origin

  1. Englishclause
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishclausal

From clause + -al.

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